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Supervisor of Dachau Crematorium Sentenced to Death; Insanity Plea Rejected

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Joseph Neuner, supervisor at the crematorium at the Dachau concentration camp, was yesterday sentenced to be hanged by a military court at Dachau, it was reported here.

Neuner was convicted of responsibility for the cremation of 10,000 persons three weeks ago, but sentence was withheld pending an investigation into his plea of insanity. A commission of German doctors declared h##ane.A report from Hanover received here during the ##stated that a ## for Jews who died in German concentration camps was ## there last Thursday. The report said that memorial headstones were ## ##ified persons.

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